Lai would be charged with collusion with "foreign powers" that wrote Mark Simon, an employee of a media entrepreneur, in the short message service Twitter. This is according to the so-called safety act, which had been set by the Beijing leadership at the end of June in force, is punishable by law. According to a police source, Lai was also made under the allegation of fraud.

Lai had said in June, before the entry into force of the so - called safety act - to the AFP news Agency that he was "prepared to the jail." He does not regret his support for the protests, he also said. The so-called safety act, he described as a "death knell for Hong Kong". Chinese state media have referred to Lai as "traitors" and pulling the strings behind the months-long protests in Hong Kong Pro-democracy movement in the past year.

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mmo/AFP Updated Date: 10 August 2020, 02:26